Eustress at work: Extending the holistic stress model

Positive Organizational Behavior

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 40-54

  Simmons, Bret L ^a   Nelson, Debra L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781446212752.n4     Document Type: Chapter

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